Short Isles Poems

"as archipelagos go"


it simply was aisle and aisle and aisles of isles...

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Damsel of isles 
Phoenix so mysterious
Lo, I scribble 

Your puerile ways
Puts me on tenterhooks
Musing on you...

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Harbinger of dreams
pillars of Infinity
shadows hide twin elms
paths lead to burial isles
crash upon your shield...

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when are metaphors
not applicable as proof
that they're existent

when a person dies
but remains here quite alive
mute indifference...

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Her emerald eyes
Like seas of tropical isles
Seduced me as they mesmerized
Emerald butterflies rise
As their  hypnotic dance intensifies...

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Paradisiac isles
Turquoise waters, caressing sands
Tanned undulations, sigh
Paradisiacally    
Palawan pleasures unite




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Calypso was famous for her feminine wiles.
She detained Odysseus on one of her Isles.
He did not mind.
As she was so kind.
He was felled easily with one of her smiles....

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Haigh! Ye from Emerald Isles
Sky and seas hide in your eyes

Wear green pride on your sleeves
Stepdance, play harp and lyres

Wear a fresh shamrock, Pray
Happy Saint Patrick's day!...

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Have a question 'bout The British Isles
My friend Thomas could answer with a smile
But might be bias
Prejudice, righteous
When first becoming friends, thought he was royalty...

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emotions sailing in choppy waters
onward to isles of seclusion
passion dinghies released 
seeking anchors of expression
securely beached
exploring wisdom shores
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Color me azurite; Malachite isles upon Lapis blue seas.

I sail the waves, moved by Gaia’s tranquil, reverberating song.

On the horizon, dolphin arcs play; brother sun laughs.
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There once was a man from the isles
Who suffered from terrible piles.
   He searched hard for a cure
   For his terrible endure
A bucket of ice, has sure made him smile




http://www.thehighlanderspoems.com/humor.php...

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Over and over
Again and again
Echo, echo
Reiteration

Throwing a ball
To and fro
Taking a walk
Away we go

Busy work
Filing files
Nighttime clerk
Stocking isles

Same ole same
Everything
No change
To cause pain...

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Your coffee locks as soft as silk,
incensed with rich vanilla milk,

exotic as southern isles 
extend for nautical miles

against tamarind skin flowing,
like radiant sunbeams glowing

upon my dreamy fixation,
beaconing my exploration.

1-3-2020...

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It always seems as though, the first line holds this key....
Creating a moment it's poetic course yet, rarely, be she thus
Adrift about his isles desert dunes like Ishmael, an outcast; tides
These ebbs in flows to scrutinize their Archer's bow ? Zodiac's montage....

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the day is mean
the night is long
i look at the feathers 
in my hands
and my eyes blow the ocean 
of an african thunderstorm
my bird sings no more
alone she soars over the happy isles
unwonen from the string of isis
my life is no more
whatever goes shall return...

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Are the sordid stories about the surreal, 
sharp, stoney Greek isles known as Sirenum Scopuli,
supposedly inhabited by sexy, sultry, sirens, 
who salaciously seduced stupefied shipwrecked sailors 
by simply singing lascivious songs, 
surely mythologic or surprisingly true?...

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   Shetland Isles

Above Barley,
Clouds Dance Enchantingly. 
Flooding Glorious Hills In Jubilant Kaleidoscope. 
Lending Motion, Natural Opulence, 
Peacefully Quiet.  Ranges Slumber Tranquilly, 
Undisturbed. Vibrant. Wheat Xylan Yellow.    
Zetland.
...

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It's 
raining-
there's nothing 
new under the
sun

The Rain it raineth every day by Norman Garstin (1889)
http://www.penleehouse.org.uk/artists/norman-garstin.htm


So much for climate change  and global warming ! (an in joke for those from these Atlantic 
costal isles.)...

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Come on in again...!
Let's go straight and 
sail                       
 In the bluewatered lakes,  
In the far Australian 
coasts;  
And nest in the waving  water          
With the floating vegetation;              
And romance in the 
green isles            
  And dance at mating time....

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Haida princess
Darkest eyes
Hunts the earth
For she is wise
Knows all fish
That swim in sea
Feels the eagle
Fly so free
Beats the drum for brother bear
Raven feathers in her hair
Through the mists
The isles appear
Of the land
She loves so dear
Pale sun through clouds does fly
Bless this land of Haida Gwaii...

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frenzy dancing tonight in the Greek isles
some of us will be dead tomorrow in Spain
laughter about the running with the bulls
my friends and I have decided to risk it

life is more exciting tonight
we love speaking of the dangers of the run
we have another drink, to get our bravery up
some of us will be dead tomorrow...

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Old pelican
Perched atop
A railing at the end
Of Sunny Isles pier

His wings spread
His body teetering
In a salty breeze
As if in mid-flight

Stationary
But with all the motion
Of the universe
Rushing about him

Like a propeller
Whirling
And steering
In the currents of the sea

Yet absent a ship to thrust....

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I'm overtaken
'Tis nigh season of trav'ling
And I alight again, Love
O how I despair 
To wander ancient isles
Alone among the great hordes

How far November
When to our farm, our boys, and
To your arms I return, Love
O sweet Donegal
My home and winter's respite
'Til I alight again, Love

August 18, 2017...

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Gazing deeply into her isles, beautiful oceans eyes...
Endless they seem these tideless waters; breathless
My heart frozen within, their aqua's joy; waves of her
Love, crashing upon life's reef; things I thought I knew
Swept away amid her arms; crystal bells as silver strings
Velvet pools and no refrains; she'll wear, my wedding ring....

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